The September report isn’t exactly fresh and the gap is narrow, but I thought it was worth writing about because the debate over vaccinations is just getting louder and louder. The American Academy of Pediatrics has launched a pro-vaccination campaign and celebrity-parent Jenny McCarthy keeps stirring up debate.

Parents’ fear is that vaccines are somehow linked to autism, though the American Academy of Pediatrics says there is no credible scientific proof of a connection. Scientists have presented comprehensive arguments on why the vaccine-autism argument is deeply flawed – Paul Offit’s “Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure” is the freshest – but the belief has staying power.